Pop music is probably my weakest category, but after guessing Shatner, Crosby, Croce, Stills, Nash, Diamond, and Young, I went with Smith, Jones, and was in the process of typing Johnson when got it! lololol
"Scandinavia" is not a simple concept. There's the Scandinavian peninsula and that's only Sweden and Norway. Culturally, yes, Denmark too because the language is almost the same as in the other two. But shouldn't you also add Iceland then even though it's further away? And what about Finland? Northern Finland, Finnish Lapland is on the peninsula, but the souther part of the country isn't. And the language, apart from the 5% minority who speaks Swedish is quite different. So - depending on your way of reckoning, it could be 2, 3, 4 or 5 countries. If it's 3, it's usually the three mentioned in the quiz though.
While the Finns reside in Scandinavia, they are ethnically different than Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians. Finns (along with the Estonians) hail from central Asia. The Finns and Estonians migrated to their respective countries way back when,
The Volga valley or Ural mountains were the original location of the Uralic peoples. The Finns and Estonians (probably indistinguishable back then) migrated to their current location more than 5000 years ago.
This is the creation myth for those countries. There is a similar one for Hungary. Languages did work like this, but "peoples" is really not a thing. I can almost guarantee that the people who now call themselves "Finns" won't have more ancestors who came from the Ural Mountains than any other Eastern Europeans. They just happen to speak a similar language. The fact that people identify with groups of people who lived more than 5000 years ago (according to Sulps) is completely illogical and actually quite dangerous, as it leads to jingoism, nationalist separatism and racism. If someone lived 5000 years ago, they are either an ancestor of everyone who is alive today, or no one who is alive today. OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but it isn't a very big one. The odds of any individual from 5000 years ago being either the ancestor of both of two given people alive today, or the ancestor of neither, are overwhelmingly high.
Fenno-Scandinavia includes Sweden, Norway and Finland. Scandinavia includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Nordics on the other hand includes all the previous countries and Iceland.
Usually "Scandinavia" refers to the cultural-geographical group of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Because history and stuff. Mostly history makes them really close.
The group that includes Finland and Iceland is just called the Nordic countries or "Norden" (the North). Because they also have stuff with history and culture and stuff... but different.
"Scandinavia" refers to only: Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as Scandia name is derived from Skåne which lies in the Scania sea that borders Den/Nor/Swe.
"Scandinavian peninsula" is only Norway and Sweden and part of Finland
"Fennoscandia" is Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and a part of Russia like Karelia all the way to Murmansk
"Nordic" countries refers to: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and the autonomous regions of Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland (I may have forgot one, but this is facts)
Please correct me if I'm wrong as there tends to be a fair amount of confusion/freedom when it comes to the term 'Scandinavia'. As far as I know, strictly geographically speaking, Scandinavia refers to Norway and Sweden only. Denmark has Copenhagen basically across from Malmö (Sweden) and is politically and economically linked to Scandinavia. For instance, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is the flag carrier of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Finland has close cultural ties with Norway and particularly Sweden, but the language is a main hint as Finnish is not a Germanic language like the Scandinavian languages. No Finn that I've ever met would categorise themselves as Scandinavian. Iceland does not fall within the geographic Scandinavian term. Having been under both Norwegian and Danish rule at one point and with Icelandic having Germanic roots, it is closely linked to it. The term 'Nordic countries' is used to refer to all five of them: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
I agree. "Nordic" is the term to use when discussing all five countries. I was ignorant of all these distinctions until I traveled through the region last summer. Every time it came up, it was noted that Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are the Scandinavian countries because of their close linguistic and ethnic relations. The Scandinavian Peninsula itself includes only Sweden and Norway, but Danes are considered Scandinavian as well.
Can you put Ares as an alternate for the God of War? That is his Greek name and arguably well known. It will also be easier for people since Wonder Woman just came out.
If one is using the term Scandinavia geographically to mean the Scandinavian peninsula then it would be Norway and Sweden for sure, with Finland almost certainly. If one is using it culturally and including Denmark but excluding Finland, then you definitely have to include Iceland because Iceland was settled by and is culturally derived from Norway and Denmark. If one is using the term to mean those countries with a Scandinavian cross on their flag then Norway Denmark Iceland Finland and Sweden are all included. The point I am trying to make is that however you try and jig it, the answer in the quiz is NEVER going to be correct, however you interpret the question.
It is not something you can make stuff up about.. like denmark shouldnt be in but sweden should because scandinavia starts with an s and d is too far off,. It is not something you can make what you want it to be..
Scandinavian here, and no. Those are the Nordic Countries. Scandinavia is only Denmark, Norway and Sweden. A small part of Finland has territory in the Scandinavian Peninsula, but they are not part of Scandinavia as a region..
The last question doesn't really fit with the description of the quiz. The quiz is fairly easy, but most people won't get all of them correct, especially that last question.
Don't forget that the proto-Finns were actually the first modern settlers of Scandinavia after the ice age.
When Germanic tribes started to migrate further north from the Central Europe, "Finns" had already lived in Norway & Sweden for centuries.
The Volga urheimat theory you are referring to is about Uralic languages, not peoples, so it's somewhat irrelevant here.
The group that includes Finland and Iceland is just called the Nordic countries or "Norden" (the North). Because they also have stuff with history and culture and stuff... but different.
Basically.
"Scandinavia" refers to only: Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as Scandia name is derived from Skåne which lies in the Scania sea that borders Den/Nor/Swe.
"Scandinavian peninsula" is only Norway and Sweden and part of Finland
"Fennoscandia" is Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and a part of Russia like Karelia all the way to Murmansk
"Nordic" countries refers to: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and the autonomous regions of Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland (I may have forgot one, but this is facts)
they are divorced.
I’ve also asked this on your list of each countries total coastline, though I’m not sure if you are notified about comments on that list.
That being said, was the coast of the Syvash Sea for the Ukrainian and Russian coastlines?
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